15,000 die in Europe

Did you hear about the terrorist attack in Europe that killed 15,000?

I bet you didn't.

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It never made a single banner headline here in the U.S.

It didn't lead the television news one day.

In fact, it was treated matter-of-factly because the terrorist attack that victimized Europe was perpetrated by governments we've been conditioned to believe are "compassionate."

I'm talking about what has been described as last month's disastrous heat wave that killed five times as many people as were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of 2001.

It wasn't really the heat that killed those people – it was the advanced state of socialism that exists across the European continent.

The temperatures never really got all that high – 103, 104. We live with temperatures that high and much higher all summer long in the United States.

The differences?

• Air-conditioning is common throughout the states – both in the workplace and even in low-income homes.

• The best health-care system in the world – a still largely private one – takes care of Americans, especially in emergency situations, without long waits.

That's about it. That's all it took for this disaster to occur in one month this summer.

"There have never been so many deaths in August since the Liberation," declared the front-page headline in France's Le Monde.

But get used to it. This is the future – not only of Europe, but of the United States if we don't change directions, if we don't stop our slippery-slope decline into government control of the economy and health care.

"To listen to the government, everybody is responsible, except the government," explained one politician.

That's the trouble. When government runs everything, everyone is responsible. And when everyone is responsible, no one is responsible.

The Health Surveillance Institute said it did "all that was asked." The department could find no major faults in its system. Nothing could have been done to prevent the disaster this time – or the next time, according to officials.

There's no one to blame. The terrorists in this attack are supposedly well-meaning people. They are not a foreign enemy. They are terrorists within. But, as anyone should be able to see from last month's death toll in Europe, they are every bit as dangerous – even more so – than Osama bin Laden.

The government hasn't even been able to count the deaths with accuracy. It has taken the undertakers to provide the world with the grim reality of an unprecedented disaster.

It may be unprecedented, but it was predictable – and it's merely a glimpse of what the future holds for Europe and the United States if we don't get over this compulsion to turn control of our lives over to the government.

What's Europe going to do next?

There isn't even a plan to deal with the next heat wave. There isn't even much pressure on the government. Why? Because there's no political opposition. In Europe, there are only socialists and socialists to choose from.

One idea in France is to force people to work harder and longer to pay for better health care. The elimination of long summer holidays may be necessary.

And that's where we're headed in the U.S., too.

The Republican Party, in control of Congress and the executive branch of government, are spending more on socialist, domestic programs than any previous U.S. government. Where are non-socialists in the U.S. supposed to turn in a two-party system?

And that's why you don't hear alarms being sounded here in the United States about the disaster in Europe. Because those in power don't have any answers.

Government doesn't have the answers. Government only exacerbates the problems.